Just Now Possible
How AI products come to life—straight from the builders themselves. In each episode, we dive deep into how teams spotted a customer problem, experimented with AI, prototyped solutions, and shipped real features. We dig into everything from workflows and agents to RAG and evaluation strategies, and explore how their products keep evolving. If you’re building with AI, these are the stories for you.
Episodes
Is This Okay? How Override Labs Built a Safety-First AI Consent Coach for Teen Boys
What if AI could help prevent sexual assault before it happens — without tracking users, judging them, or handing them a verdict?
In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Priya Nakra (Founder and Product Lead) and Olivia Rowley (AI Advisor and Board Member) of Override Labs, a nonprofit building technology to prevent gender-based violence. Their flagship product, *Is This Ok
Beyond Black Box Scores: How Musubi Trains Custom AI for Trust and Safety Teams
What do you do when off-the-shelf moderation scores aren't good enough—and the alternative is paying human contractors to spend their days reviewing traumatizing content at scale?
In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Nikki Marinsek (Data Scientist), Brian McCaffrey (Software Engineer), and Dan Means (Machine Learning Engineer) from Musubi, an AI-native trust and safety t
Building Lorikeet: How AI Humility and a Dual-Agent Architecture Are Redefining Customer Support
What does it take to build an AI customer support agent that actually knows when it can't help — and says so?
In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Jamie Hall (Co-founder & CTO), Xharmagne Carandang (Product Engineer), and Rona Wang (Product Engineer) of Lorikeet, a startup building AI customer support concierge agents for businesses in regulated industries. Lorikeet's vi
Building Rhea's Factory: How AI-Designed Enzymes Could Finally Solve Plastic Recycling
Only 10% of the plastic we manufacture gets recycled. We've been trying to solve this for a hundred years using the same mechanical and chemical tools that created the problem. What if biology—specifically, engineered enzymes—is the missing piece?
In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Arzu Sandıkçı (co-founder and CEO) and Mert Topcu (co-founder) of Rhea's Factory, a star
Building AI Employees for Hospitality: How AITropos Takes Orders Where Customers Already Are
What does it take to build an AI that can take a food order over WhatsApp — correctly, every time, fast enough that customers can't tell it's not a person? That's the core challenge Santi Marchiori and Juan Haedo set out to solve at AITropos, a company building AI employees for the hospitality industry.
In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Santi Marchiori (CEO) and Juan
Building Todoist Ramble: How Doist Turned Voice Braindumps into Real-Time Task Capture
How do you turn a rambling stream of consciousness into a clean task list — while the person is still talking? That's the core challenge Doist solved with Ramble, a voice-to-task feature inside Todoist that uses live audio AI to capture tasks in real time, no transcription step required.
In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Ernesto Garcia (Front-end Product Engineer), Th
Building Banani: How a Canvas-First AI Designer Is Raising the Floor on Product Design
What if the future of product design isn't about replacing designers — it's about giving every team access to one? For solo founders, stretched design teams, and early-stage startups, great UX has always been out of reach. Banani is trying to change that by building an AI product designer that doesn't just generate code — it generates design.
In this episode of _Just Now Possible_, Teresa Torres
Building Agent Studio: How Medable Is Using Agentic AI to Accelerate Clinical Trials
What if AI could help reduce the 10-plus years it takes to get a new drug to market? That's the driving ambition behind Medable's agentic platform—and the bet that led them to build Agent Studio.
In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with four members of the Medable team: Luke Bates (Product Leader, Agent Studio), Jen Brown (Product Manager), Matt Schoolfield (Product Designer
Building GitHub for Product Management: How Momental Uses AI to Find Merge Conflicts in Strategy
What if an AI could spot the moment two product teams start pulling in opposite directions -- before it derails a quarter?
In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Matthias and Charlotte Kleverud, co-founders of Momental, about their vision for building what they call "GitHub for product management." Momental ingests documents, meeting transcripts, and voice recordings acros
Building AI Sales Reps: How ShowMe Orchestrates Voice, Video, and Multi-Agent Workflows to Close Deals
What happens when you treat an AI agent not as a chatbot, but as a full teammate on your sales team -- one that can jump on video calls, demo your product, make phone calls, and follow up over days?
In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Yuri Vela Tulupov (Co-Founder and CEO) and Quique Gomez (Co-Founder and Lead Product Engineering) from ShowMe, an AI-native startup build
Building Earmark: How a Two-Person Team Turned Meetings into Finished Work
What if your meetings could actually produce the artifacts you need—specs, tickets, slides—before the call even ends?
In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Mark Barbir (CEO) and Sanden Gocka (Co-Founder), the co-founders of Earmark, about building a productivity suite that turns unstructured conversations into finished work in real time. Unlike generic AI notetakers that
When Trust Is Everything: Building AI for Physicians at Healio
How do you build an AI product for an audience that can't afford to be wrong—and won't trust you until you prove it?
In this episode of _Just Now Possible_, Teresa Torres talks with three leaders from Healio—Jennifer Deal (SVP of Product Development), Casey Utley (Senior UX Designer), and Matthew Skepner (VP of Technology)—about how their 125-year-old medical publishing company built Healio AI, a
Building Tendos AI: How an Agent Swarm Turns Construction Emails into Quotes
When a construction company receives a bid request, someone has to open that email, parse the attached PDF (sometimes 1,800 pages describing an entire building), figure out which products are relevant, look up pricing, and draft a quote—all before the deadline. It's tedious, error-prone, and surprisingly manual.
In this episode of _Just Now Possible_, Teresa Torres talks with Daniel Kappler (CTO,
Building a Career Co-pilot for Disadvantaged Students: How Zero Gravity Bridges Knowing and Doing
How do you help disadvantaged students take action on opportunities they don't even know exist?
In this episode of _Just Now Possible_, Teresa Torres talks with Elliot Little (Product Manager) and Dan St. Paul (Software Engineer) from Zero Gravity, a UK-based platform that helps state school students access elite career opportunities through mentoring, community, and learning pathways. They've bu
Automating the Full Customer Support Iceberg: How Gradient Labs Built a Multi-Agent Platform
What happens when a customer reports a stolen credit card? The frontline answer is simple—freeze it. But underneath lies a cascade of follow-ups: dispute filings, fraud investigations, merchant communications, and proactive outreach to gather more details. Most AI support tools handle only the tip of the iceberg.
In this episode, Teresa Torres talks with Jack Taylor (Product Engineer) and Ibrahim
Building Mowie: How a Concierge Service Became an AI Marketing Platform
What if your small business could have a full marketing team—automated content calendars, customer segmentation, and channel-specific posts—without the headcount?
In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Chris O'Connor (CEO) and Jessica Valenzuela (Co-Founder) of Mowie, an AI marketing platform built for small and medium-sized businesses in restaurants, retail, and e-commerc
From Prototype to Production: How Perk Built a Voice AI Agent That Makes 10,000 Calls a Week
What happens when you combine a real customer problem, a no-code prototype, and a team willing to listen to every single call?
In this episode of _Just Now Possible_, Teresa Torres talks with Steven Payne (Product Manager), Gabriel Stock (Senior Engineering Manager), and Philipe Steiff (Senior Software Engineer) from Perk—a company that helps businesses eliminate "shadow work" like travel booking
Building an AI Sleep Coach: How Rest is Making CBTI Principles Accessible to DIY Sleep Hackers
What if you could get personalized sleep coaching—inspired by the same principles that cost thousands of dollars and have year-and-a-half waitlists—through a voice AI that checks in with you every morning?
In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Martin Siniawski (CEO and co-founder) and Ignacio (CTO) from Rest about how they built an AI sleep coach inspired by Cognitive Beh
Turning Vendor Chaos into Answers: How Xelix Built an AI Helpdesk
Accounts payable inboxes can see 1,000+ vendor emails a day. Xelix's new Helpdesk turns that chaos into structured tickets, enriched with ERP data, and pre-drafted replies—complete with confidence scores.
In this episode, Claire Smid (AI Engineer), Emilija Gransaull (Back-End Tech Lead), and **Talal A.** (Product Manager) walk us through how they scoped the problem, prototyped with “daily slices
When AI Becomes Your SRE: How Incident.io Is Automating Incident Response
When your site goes down, every second counts. For years, Incident.io has helped engineering teams coordinate through chaos—getting the right people in the room, keeping stakeholders informed, and restoring order fast.
Now, they’re building something new: an AI SRE that can actually help diagnose and respond to incidents.
In this episode, Teresa Torres talks with Lawrence Jones (Founding Enginee
Building Trainline’s AI Travel Assistant: How a 25-Year-Old Company Went Agentic
Trainline—the world’s leading rail and coach platform—helps millions of travelers get from point A to point B. Now, they’re using AI to make every step of the journey smoother.
In this episode, Teresa Torres talks with David Eason (Principal Product Manager) Billie Bradley (Product Manager), and Matt Farrelly (Head of AI and Machine Learning) from Trainline about how they built Travel Assistant,
Powering Government with Community Voices: How ZenCity Built an AI That Listens
How do you use AI to help city leaders truly hear their residents?
In this episode, Teresa Torres talks with Noa Reikhav (SVP of Product), Andrew Therriault (VP of Data Science), and Shota Papiashvili (SVP of R&D) from Zencity, a company that powers government decision-making with community voices.
They share how Zencity brings together survey data, 311 calls, social media, and local news into
Building AI Coworkers: How Neople Is Making Agents Work Where You Work
What if your next teammate was an AI coworker — one that could answer support tickets, process invoices, or even draft your next email — and your _non-technical_ colleagues could teach it how to do those tasks themselves?
In this episode, host Teresa Torres talks with Seyna Diop (CPO), Job Nijenhuis (CTO & Co-founder), and Christos C. (Lead Design Engineer) of Neople, a company creating “digital
Building Alyx: How Arize AI Dogfooded Its Way to an Agentic Future
What does it really take to build an AI agent inside an AI platform—especially when you’re using that same platform to build the agent?
In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with SallyAnn DeLucia (Director of Product at Arize) and Jack Zhou (Staff Engineer at Arize) about the journey of building Alyx, their AI agent designed to help teams debug, optimize, and evaluate AI appli
Debugging AI Products: From Data Leakage to Evals with Hamel Husain
How do you know if your AI product is actually any good? Hamel Husain has been answering that question for over 25 years. As a former machine learning engineer and data scientist at Airbnb and GitHub (where he worked on research that paved the way for GitHub Copilot), Hamel has spent his career helping teams debug, measure, and systematically improve complex systems.
In this episode, Hamel joins
Inside eSpark’s AI Teacher Assistant: RAG, Evals, and Real Classroom Needs
How do you build an AI-powered assistant that teachers will actually use?
In this episode of Just Now Possible, Teresa Torres talks with Thom van der Doef (Principal Product Designer), Mary Gurley (Director of Learning Design & Product Manager), and Ray Lyons (VP of Product & Engineering) from eSpark. Together, they’ve spent more than a decade building adaptive learning tools for K–5 classrooms—a
Turning Disruption into Opportunity: The Stack Overflow AI Story with Ellen Brandenberger
When ChatGPT launched, Stack Overflow faced a cataclysmic shift: developer behavior was changing overnight. In this episode, Teresa Torres talks with Ellen Brandenburger, former product leader at Stack Overflow, about how her team navigated the disruption, prototyped AI features, and eventually built an entirely new business line.
Ellen shares the inside story of Overflow AI—from the first scrapp
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How AI products come to life—straight from the builders themselves. In each episode, we dive deep into how teams spotted a customer problem, experimented with AI, prototyped solutions, and shipped real features. We dig into everything from workflows and agents to RAG and evaluation strategies, and explore how their products keep evolving. If you’re building with AI, these are the stories for you.
